DE151220C - - Google Patents

Description

IMPERIAL

PATENT OFFICE.

The invention relates to a bottle filling device in which by pressing of the bottle, first the air channel and then the beer channel of the filling valve is opened. The essence of the invention is that in a known manner as a rotatable lever trained and liftable by striking an arm designed as a thumb closure body for the air channel carries a closure body for the beer channel. It is also essential that the closure body for the air duct, the closure body for the beer duct when the air duct is opened arihebt. It is also important that the

Withdrawal of the bottle of the closure of the channels by the weight action of the closure body for the beer channel. This will, inter alia. the main advantage achieves that the use of special aids (springs, counterweights, etc.) to close the air duct and to move the filling tube are no longer necessary can.

The subject of the invention is shown in an exemplary embodiment in the accompanying drawing shown, namely shows:

Fig. Ι a vertical longitudinal section through the filling device with the buffer frame lowered,

2 shows a vertical cross section with the buffer frame raised,

3 shows a vertical section through the filling valve in the open state,

4 shows a vertical section through the filling valve in the closed state.

Essentially, the present bottle filling device consists of the following three Main parts:

1. the hermetically sealed filling box A, which rests on pillars 1,

2. the bottle crate B with suitably square compartments 2 and with an adjustable and detachable lid and removable base,

3. the frame C with the buffers.

The bottle crate B is divided into such large compartments 2 by frames that the largest viable bottle can be brought into each compartment.

To the bottle crate fill B with directly coming from the dishwasher bottles to be able to provided the bottle case B with four sliding rollers 3, so that the same is easy to move from the washer to the present filling machine, and in the latter on two rail tracks 4 and 20th

The distance between the rollers 3 is very small, so that the bottle crate B can be easily turned inside out.

The bottle crate B initially assumes this inverted position in order to be filled with bottles 5 first. Here, the bottles are prevented from falling through a cover 6 with longitudinal slots 7 in such a way that the bottles 5 can slide through the longitudinal slots 7 with their necks, but with their belly

get stuck. In order to accommodate bottles of different heights, the correspondingly removable cover 6 is set up by means of rods 8 so that it can be raised and lowered.
As soon as the bottle crate B filled with bottles 5, and the bottom is pushed 9 via the latter, the cylinder box B is supplied rolls of the filling machine and turned inside out immediately prior to the filling machine.

While the bottle crate B is now rolled under the filling machine, the bottom 9 under the bottle crate B is held by means of the thumb 10 in such a way that the bottom 9 is pushed off as it is held in place with the two hooks 11 and 12. As the base 9 rests on the two pins 13 (FIG. 1), the bottles slide along a row of so-called buffers 14, so that finally each bottle 5 comes to rest on such a buffer 14. By means of the levers 15, 16, 17 and the shaft 18 (FIGS. 1 and 2), the buffer frame C is moved upwards on the four columns 1 by guiding eight rollers which are fastened in bearings 19. Since the two rail lines 20 under the filling box A are separated from the outer rail line 4 and are rigidly connected to the buffer frame C , the bottle crate B rests with the rollers 3 on the rails 20, while each individual bottle stands on an independent buffer 14 .

A plate 21 is attached between the bottle crate B and the filling crate A (FIGS. 1 and 2), which is attached to bez \ v by means of sleeves 22. is guided between the columns 1. The plate 21 carries a conical cuff 24 centrally to each filling valve 23 located above the same and is pressed down by the springs 25 against the adjusting rings 26.

The latter springs 25 are so strong that the plate vird 21 retained in the first upward movement of the bottle crate B \. The bottles 5 are first set exactly centric to the filling tube q ¹ by the cuff 24 of the plate 21 and are themselves held at a uniform height by the buffers 14.
During the filling process, first compressed air and then the beer are fed into the bottle under the same pressure by first opening the air channel and then the beer channel of the filling valve by pressing the bottle.

The air duct a ¹ (FIGS. 3 and 4) and the beer duct b ^l move together in the sleeve c ^{l which is} tightly screwed into the filling box A.

While the beer channel b ¹ down on the floor

of the filling box A has its opening in order to avoid a beer residue, the air channel a ¹ protrudes in the form of a pipe over the highest beer level and is provided at the upper end with a lever d ¹ rotatable about the bolt h ¹ , which with its arm e ¹ closes the air duct a ¹ and through which a screw f ¹ receives guidance; the latter closes the cylinder ¹ g beer channel ^B1.

The small lever d ¹ is provided on one side with a thumb z ' ¹ and on the other side with a weight k ¹ , which the latter ensure the sealing of the air duct a ¹ respectively. should secure.

Above the thumb z ¹ a plate 27 (Fig. Ι and 2) is arranged, which respectively held by screws 28. regulated and in turn is sealed in the cover 29 by small bells 30.

The plate 27 is embedded in the filling box A and serves as a stop for the thumb i ¹ (Fig. 3 and 4).

As soon as the bottle 5 is now sealed by the spring pressure of the buffer 14 on the rubber cone m ¹ (Fig. 3), the valve 23 is raised when the bottle is further lifted, so that the thumb z ¹ presses against the plate 27 and the air channel a ^l opens.

Here, however, the beer channel I ¹ is not yet opened, because between the lever d ^l and the head n ^{x of} the screw f ¹ , which is used to lift the cylinder g ^! serves, a margin is left. Only after the lever has been rotated by the size of the clearance is the cylinder g ¹ taken up and the beer channel b ¹ opened as a result.

In order to be able to introduce the air channel α ¹ and beer channel b ¹ into the bottle 5 outside the filling box A ^{, the two channels are tapered by nut o 1} and screw connection p ^l to form a tube ^ ¹ such that the latter can be easily inserted into the bottle neck can.

The pipe q ^l is divided into the air and beer duct by a partition r ^1.

After the bottles 5 have all been filled with beer, the lever 15 (FIGS. 1 and 2) is pushed back so that the bottle crate B again assumes the initial position before it was pushed up.

Then the bottle crate B is pushed further onto the table 31, which rests on the frame 32.

But since the bottle crate B, as can be seen from the operations described above, is freed from its bottom 9, the bottle crate B can be lifted so that the bottles 5 remain on the table 31 ready to be closed or, in the case of larger crates B, the individual bottles 5 can be removed from the compartments 2.

As is readily apparent, it is not absolutely necessary for the counterweight k ^{l to be} present on the rotatable lever d ^l; it can also be absent, because the closure of the channel a ¹ is ensured by the fact that when the bottle is withdrawn, the weight of the closure body g ¹ acts on the lever , d ^x and thereby the part e ^{1 of} that lever d ^l to rest against the channel a ^x brings.

Claims (1)

Patent claim: Bottle filling device in which by pressing the bottle first the The air and then the beer channel of the filling valve is opened, characterized in that the closure body (d ^l ) for the air duct (a ¹ ) , which is designed in a known manner as a rotatable lever and can be raised by striking an arm designed as a thumb, has a closure body (g ^l ) for the beer channel (b ^l ) and that closure body (g ^l ) lifts when the air channel (a ^l ) is opened , so that when the bottle is withdrawn the closure of the channels (a ¹ b ^l ) is caused by the weight of the closure body (g ^) for the beer channel (b ^l ) and the use of special aids for the automatic return of the filling valve can be omitted. 1 sheet of drawings. Berlin, printed in the Reichsdruckerei.